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BORO POLITICS
Back on
the ballot
Judge’s ruling
shakes up
B’wick election
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Darma Diaz, the partybacked
contender for Bushwick’s
City Council seat, will
face two challengers in the
June 23 Democratic primary
election after a judge overturned
an “absurd” decision
by the Board of Elections that
previously left Diaz as the only
candidate on the ballot.
Kings County Supreme
Court Justice Edgar Walker
issued a ruling that both
Misba Abdin and the aptlynamed
Kim Council had each
collected enough signatures
to qualify for the ballot —
overruling the city’s election
offi cials, who had previously
claimed that they’d missed the
threshold.
According to Judge Walk-
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